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Updating ‘be prepared’ for the 21st Century
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why, Ripley, Amanda
Amanda Ripley has taken an interesting premise and turned it into an excellent book. A writer for Time magazine, she’s turned her attention to the lessons to be had from the ordinary people who survive extraordinary situations; those [...]
Michael Wesch’s anthropological introduction to YouTube
[cross posted at FastForward Blog]
All the people whose opinions I trust have been recommending Michael Wesch’s most recent effort, “An anthropological introduction to YouTube.” It’s a presentation he delivered in June at he Library of Congress. It will take you an hour, but it is definitely time and attention well spent. Wesch and his students [...]
Review of Tom Davenport’s "Competing on Analytics"
Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning, Davenport, Thomas H. and Jeanne G. Harris
Tom Davenport has turned his attention of late to the prospects for business intelligence and information analytics. Competing on Analytics offers a managerial introduction to the topic. It emphasizes why organizations ought to be interested in the topic, what kinds [...]
About McGee’s Musings
Welcome to those of you visiting courtesy of Liz Strauss. This place started as an experiment while I was teaching courses in IT and Knowledge Management at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. This was in the Fall of 2001 and blogs were still relatively new. I saw them then and now as an important part [...]
Christopher Alexander’s take on the essence of expertise
One of the many lovely things about blogging is the way that people redirect your attention to things you’ve looked at before; calling attention to important insights that you missed the first time around or have simply forgotten. Back in May, the folks at SIGNAL VS. NOISE pointed to a passage in Christopher Alexander’s A [...]
Tagged Alexander, expertiseAttitude, hypothesis, experiment, and evidence
Doing science is fundamentally a state of mind more than any particular set of tools or any particular domain of knowledge.
How do you know when you’re doing science wrong?
Easy:
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More in the same vein from xkcd.
Fostering these attitudes is increasingly relevant in organizational settings. We’re awash in data [...]
Grounded advice on making better use of your brain
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School, Medina, John
John Medina is a molecular biologist bent on sharing how what we know about the brain can help us be more effective in the world at large. His central argument is that there are simple, but very important, lessons to [...]
Useful models of systems change
All models are wrong. Some models are useful.
George E.P. Box
Although we’re constantly engaged in attempts to improve systems and organizations by introducing new practices and technologies, we still tend to do a mediocre job of dealing with the ensuing organizational changes. Part of our problem is that we tend to rely on very simplistic models [...]
Online Book Study Group Formed for Your Inner CEO
Earlier this year, I reviewed Your Inner CEO, by Allan Cox. In the course of that, I’ve actually had the pleasure of meeting Allan and getting to know him. I think it was Ross Mayfield of SocialText who introduced us. Allan is an existence proof that nice guys can be very successful.
One of the things [...]
